The Best of CES 2019

Best Laptop: Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Yoga. For the first time in ThinkPad history, it’s going aluminum. Lenovo this week unveiled the new ThinkPad X1 Yoga, ditching the foldable laptop’s usual carbon fiber for a CNC-machined, unibody aluminum chassis. It’s 17 percent smaller than last year’s X1 Yoga model, has a brighter display, and weighs just a few pounds. It’s also getting internal upgrades: improved speakers, LTE support, and four far-field microphones at the top so you can shout at virtual assistants all day long. Its eighth-generation Intel Core processor will feel outdated as soon as Intel gets around to releasing the ninth-generation chip, but the biggest downside might be its price: It will start at $1,929 when it ships in June. —Lauren Goode

After walking miles of expo hall carpeting, watching countless live demos, and sitting through god knows how many press announcements, we're ready to declare these 10 products to be the best things we saw at CES 2019. Of all the amazing and beautiful gadgets on display here in Las Vegas, these are the products which exhibit a strong sense of innovation and vision within their categories. They achieve this through exquisite industrial design, innovative engineering, and simply seeing the future and realizing it in a product you can touch and hold.

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